You might think I far too strongto submit to your leather harnessYet I can not tell right from wrongIn your shadow's looming darkness

You might think it far too dangerousto let me draw your fine wooden cartYet all of LIfe around seems treacherous To those who face it not with open Heart

You'd think I would protest and buckWhen you control me with your reinsI will return you safe in best of luckAfter we course reckless through my veins

You might think I can't be reachedThat I am too distant, too wild-borneYet in a snowy night I can be teachedTo be gently driven on by moonlit horn

Author's Notes: This was inspired by an historic picture that was sent to me yesterday, by a very dear friend, of a pair of wild moose, pulling a cart, in harness ca. 1920's. I know of other moose that had been captured, tamed, saddled and ridden and driven (sleighs and wagons) last century. Moose can be easily domesticated, so it is a good thing that it is forbidden by law throughout the northern world (when you think about it, farming a species usually results in the extinction of the wild ancestors of that species..

Moose under saddle scare the hell out of horses (which is ostensibly why Kings of Old, proud horsemen and mounted warriors, had the good sense throughout their lands, to forbid the domestication of moose. Once upon a long time ago a warring northern tribe, with a relatively small number of moose mounted warriors, wreaked havoc amidst the olde world with their moose cavalry. Until they were finally defeated, crushed. Moose never again to be captured and harnessed!!

The law stuck throughout the ages, and is still with us. Is why we still have these awesome creatures in our midst! (beautiful horses safe inside their pastures, wild majestic moose free in the woods beyond) . Author's Location: Rural Central, Ontario More Poems: Cernunnos Poetry has posted 682 additional poems- View them? Author's Profile: To learn more about Cernunnos Poetry - Click HERE Contact Me Via Email...

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